Basic Tips

This is a guide I made up several years ago for CheatBook.de under the cheezy name "Hegemonia3000." Hey, I was a kid back then. Anywho, I'll update this guide in the future as I get reaquainted with the game; but for now, I'll just copy & paste what I wrote up back then.

First off

First off, the official Hegemonia website offers a pretty useful, free,
walkthrough guide in PDF format. This will allow you to overcome the games
many "akward moments." For example, with your first encounter with the
Kariak, they enter your system through active jumpnodes and attack you;
but, after you destroy all the ships on radar, the game doesn't progress.
The walkthrough manual tells us to "search the jumpnodes for idle Kariak
ships if the mission fails to progress." Tidbits such as these can be the
diffrence between enjoying the game and tossing it out the window in
fustration.

I came, I saw, and it's all mine!

In the single player missions, the first thing you'll want to do is control
planets. When you first start a mission (or enter a system) pause the game,
and count the number of inhabitable planets (Once you have researched the
necessary invention {Improved Colonization}). Then build the according number
of colonization ships, colonizing planets outward from your starting colony.

Doing this will give you the overall advantage within the game.

War on the homefront

Its not really necessary to build military bases. Those of you who masterd the
game know this. The best way to use military installations is to guard
active jumpnodes; this way, if any unwanted guests come knockin' they;ll
have to answer to your big guard dog.

Just build a large number of corvettes & cruisers (fighters eventually get
fazed out and replaced by corvetts) and place them in strategic positions
within each system.

Say Hello to My Little Friend!

Within the game, the most powerfull weapon class are missiles. They have a
slow rate of fire, but they pack a big punch! Once you've advanced far
enough within the weapon class, ECM pods won't have an effect on missiles.

The Silent Killer

The most useful ship class within the game are spies, they can wreak chaos
within your enemies empire! Depending on your empires tech-level,
they can blow up military installations & battleships. Personally, I like to
insite riots and have my enemies planets go independent, that way, they have
someone else besides me to worry about.

Run Your Pockets:

Spies can bring in a heafty income! Have them steal money from other
empires, so, not only do you have another source if income rolling in, but
you'll also slow down your enemies operation.

Knowledge Is Power

This game was designed in a really strange way. The games manual will
explain alot about the game that the game itself won't. For example, besides
guarding stuff, did you know that military bases will automatically repair
any friendly ships nearby? And any prototypes that you've aquired (from
another empire), but were never researched, don't get carried over into
other mission? If you didn't, then I guess someone needs to read their game
manual.

Getting Past Planet Weapons

Righ-click tactics, and order your units to target weapons when attacking a planet with weapon defenses. Otherwise your units will just keep shooting at the planet getting nowhere and killed.

[Scorch]

Well, actually the Steam version is better to use with the crash fix, than the one from GoG. Search for "Steam Legions of Iron Sound System and MP Fix" on ModDB.

[DancefloorDale]

@El tio guillermo I think you'll have to buy the GOG version. Apparently that version doesn't crash. Get a refund from Steam if you can and buy that version instead.

[okayusimp]

hey, i have the same problem for the sound crash, i wanted to ask if you know about some mod or something to fix it, i will be very gratiful if you help me. (sorry if i write bad, i speak spanish)

[DancefloorDale]

@Aktuh Because of the Steam version having sound errors that regularly cause the game to crash, I got fed up and stopped playing it, so I've yet to update this guide. I'd really like to make a mission walkthough because this is a pretty badly designed game that leaves you scratching your head sometimes as to how to get the game to progress. As badly designed as this game was, all that it did right has yet to be done since.

[Aktuh]

Great stuff! I'm finishing up the download and really needed to know a little bit about how to be decent/good at the game! Keep up the great work!